Jack and Jill went up the hill To fetch a pail of water; Jack fell down and broke his crown, And Jill came tumbling after. Up Jack got, and home did trot, As fast as he could caper; Went to bed to mind his head, With vinegar and brown paper.
Nursery Songs, or Mother Goose Rhymes Set to Music
by Samuel Barber (1910 - 1981)
1. Jack and Jill  [sung text checked 1 time]
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]2. God bless you!  [sung text checked 1 time]
Christmas is coming! The geese are getting fat; Please put a penny in the old man's hat. If you haven't got a penny A ha'penny will do, If you haven't got a ha'penny, God bless you!
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]3. I love little pussy  [sung text checked 1 time]
I love little pussy, Her coat is so warm, And if I don't hurt her she'll do me no harm; So I'll not pull her tail, Nor drive her away, But pussy and I very quickly will play.
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]4. Two old men [sung text checked 1 time]
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There was an old man from Jamaica Who suddenly married a Quaker! But she cried out, "O lack! I have married a black!" Which distressed that old man from Jamaica!
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- by Edward Lear (1812 - 1888)
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]There was an old man from Peru Who watched his wife baking a stew But one day by mistake, In the stove she did bake That unfortunate man from Peru!
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- by Edward Lear (1812 - 1888)
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]5. Tom, Tom, the piper's son  [sung text checked 1 time]
Tom, Tom, the piper's son, He learned to play when he was young, But the only tune that he could play, Was "Over the hills" and "Over the hills" and "Over the hills and far away."
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]6. The Rockaby Lady  [sung text checked 1 time]
The Rock-a-By Lady from Hushaby street
Comes stealing; comes creeping;
The poppies they hang from her head to her feet,
And each hath a dream that is tiny and fleet ---
She bringeth her poppies to you, my sweet,
When she findeth you sleeping!
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- by Eugene Field (1850 - 1895), "The Rock-a-By Lady"
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Researcher for this page: Mike Pearson7. I do not like thee, Dr. Fell  [sung text checked 1 time]
I do not like thee, Dr Fell, The reason why I cannot tell; But this I know, and know full well, I do not like thee, Dr Fell.
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The story is told that Tom Brown (1663-1704) was threatened with expulsion by an Oxford don unless he could translate the following epigram by Martial (I, 33, 1): "Non amo te, Sabidi, nec possum dicere quare; Hoch tantum possum dicere, non amo te." The reply was reportedly the text shown above, which was later used as a nursery rhyme (from 1926). Cf. Samuel Barber: A Thematic Catalogue of the Complete Works by Barbara B. Heyman, Oxford University Press, 2012, page 15.
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